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All Airports Should Have BannerXpress Kiosks

Dec 11. 2011

Last month, Amsterdam's Schipol Airport became the first airport to install a BannerXpress kiosk and the banner printing machine couldn't be more popular. Installed at the airport's arrivals area, BannerXpress allows friends and families of passengers to create and print "welcome home" banners with custom fonts, graphics, messages and background images. The kiosk accepts debit and credit cards and charges from around $5.30 for a small banner, to up to $20 for the largest option which are printed on a canvas material in just a couple of minutes. BannerXpress has gotten so popular, in fact, that users began to seek it to print banners for parties and sports games. As a result, the company plans to expand its target locations to sports...

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Guest Posts, Relationships, Travel

Guest Post: Lifelong Partner, Lifelong Travel Companion

Nov 22. 2011

Today's guest post comes from someone whose blog I have been enjoying since my own blogging days on Xanga: Ray, otherwise known as jigg. Ray recently celebrated a kickass BBQ wedding and is fresh back from a European honeymoon; after all this excitement he is currently on a short blogging hiatus, but was kind enough to contribute a post for my blogging maternity break. So sit back and enjoy! One thing I have always wanted to do was travel the world. Many people I know also want the same thing, but only 1 or 2 of them actually tried to make it come true. A few years ago when I was single, I thought I had to see and travel as...

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Personal, Science, Travel

How to Instantly Cool Down a Car

Jul 20. 2011

Here in the NYC area, we are currently experiencing what may become the hottest week of the year.  :-(  Summer has always been my least favorite season because I loathe the heat, humidity, and yes, even the longer days. As anyone who has traveled in a vehicle during the peak of summer can attest, one of the worst things about the heat is getting into a car that has been baking under the sun for hours. So this morning, I was delighted to find the following video on Reddit — by rolling down the window on one side and opening and closing the door on the other side 5-6 times, you can instantly cool down the interior of a car! The proof is...

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Art/Design, Photography, Travel

Photo Opportunities: Hundreds of Tourist Photos as One

Feb 20. 2011

Conducting online keyword searches for world-famous monuments and tourist hotspots, visual artist Corinne Vionnet culled thousands of tourists' snapshots for her series Photo Opportunities. Each image in the series was created by superimposing hundreds of pictures of the monuments — the effect is quite haunting and ethereal, and inevitably wistful. Saint Basil's Cathedral, Moscow Tiananmen Square, Beijing, China Taj Mahal, India Mecca, Saudi Arabia Acropolis of Athens, Greece The (former) World Trade Center, New York Coliseum of Rome, Italy Eiffel Tower, Paris, France Himeji Castle, Japan Head on over to My Modern Met for more from the series. Via Geekosystem....

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